Nicole Rosenthal was born and raised in New York City. As a teenager in the late 1980’s she was fascinated by material culture and the influence the media has on our dreams and desires. After studying Art and Semiotics at Brown University, she had a successful career as an editorial photographer from 1990-2000. Starting as a stringer with the San Francisco Associated Press, she became a regular contributor to national print magazines like Newsweek, Adweek, Smart Money, Fortune, San Francisco Focus, Wired, Jump, Mens Health, Glamour and Vibe. She was a contributor to both Corbis/Outline and Getty stock agencies. In 1999 Rosenthal was selected as one of PDN’s 30 under 30 photographers to watch. In 2001 Rosenthal married and moved to the UK, she had two children and left the magazine world to raise them. In 2014 she returned to school earning an MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s International Limited Residency Program. In 2015, Rosenthal received a Merit Award from HAS for her developing thesis project, Somewhere To Get To. Rosenthal is currently in a photo conversation on the website A New Nothing. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.